High Altitude Guides

Below is a collection of online resources detailing high altitudes and how they may affect certain persons. Explanations of conditions and symptoms along with treatment and prevention tips may be found in several of these articles. NorthEast Infectious Diseases is not responsible for nor do we endorse any of the content contained in any of these sites. These resources are provided as reference material only.

• An Altitude Tutorial, by Thomas E. Dietz from the International Society for Mountain Medicine
  
  
• High Altitude, a report by Catherine M. Quinn, University of Limerick, Ireland
  
  
• High-Altitude Sickness, what it is and what are the symptoms, from the American Heart Association website
  
  
• Outdoor Action Guide to High Altitude: Acclimatization and Illnesses, article by Rick Curtis, Director of the Outdoor Action Program at Princeton University